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Canada British Columbia Density 2016. British Columbia is a Canadian province with a population of about 5.7 million people. The province represents about 13.2% of the population of the Canadian population. Most of the population is between the ages of 15 and 49.
Map of visible minorities in Canada by province, 2016. 9,639,200 Canadians identified as a member of a visible minority group in the 2021 Canadian Census, for 26.53% of the total population.
Visible minorities have become highly concentrated in Vancouver and its suburbs. [1] The proportion of visible minorities in Vancouver increased from 14 percent to 55 percent of the population between 1981 and 2021. [2] [3] [4] Vancouver has less residential segregation of its ethnic minorities compared to older Canadian cities such as Montreal ...
Hence, the term visible minority is used here in contrast to the overall Canadian population which remains predominantly of European descent. In Metro Vancouver, at the 2021 census , 54.5% of the population were members of non-European ethnic groups, 43.1% were members of European ethnic groups, and 2.4% of the population identified as Indigenous.
Most populous municipality: Toronto, Ontario, 2,794,356 [1] Highest percentage increase in population from 2016: Kapawe'no First Nation 229, Alberta, 1,840.0% [1] This geographic area underwent a boundary change since the 2016 Census that resulted in an adjustment to the 2016 population and/or dwelling counts for this area.
With a census population of 153,569 people (2021), it is the most populous municipality in the province outside metropolitan Vancouver. [3] Abbotsford–Mission has the third-highest proportion of visible minorities among census metropolitan areas in Canada, after the Greater Toronto Area and the Greater Vancouver CMA. [7]
Employment equity, as defined in federal Canadian law by the Employment Equity Act (French: Loi sur l’équité en matière d’emploi), requires federal jurisdiction employers to engage in proactive employment practices to increase the representation of four designated groups: women, people with disabilities, visible minorities, and Indigenous peoples. [1]
Asian Canadians are Canadians who were either born in or can trace their ancestry to the continent of Asia.Canadians with Asian ancestry comprise both the largest and fastest-growing group in Canada, after European Canadians, forming approximately 20.2 percent of the Canadian population as of 2021, making up the majority of Canada’s visible minority population.